| 摘要 | 第4-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-7页 |
| Introduction | 第13-17页 |
| 0.1 Objectives and Significance of the Research | 第13-15页 |
| 0.2 Research Questions | 第15页 |
| 0.3 Research Methodology | 第15-16页 |
| 0.4 Organization of the Thesis | 第16-17页 |
| Chapter One Linguistic Background: Disjunction and Downward Entailment | 第17-33页 |
| 1.1The Interpretation of Disjunction in Logic and in Human Languages | 第17-21页 |
| 1.2 The Interaction between Disjunction and Downward Entailment | 第21-30页 |
| 1.2.1 Disjunction in the Two Arguments of niversal Quantifier mei | 第22-26页 |
| 1.2.2 Disjunction in the Antecedent Clause versus the Consequent Clause of ConditionalStatements | 第26-29页 |
| 1.2.3 Disjunction in Negation | 第29-30页 |
| 1.3 The Acquisition of Disjunction and Downward Entailment | 第30-33页 |
| Chapter Two Previous Researches on Acquisition of Disjunction in ChildLanguage | 第33-41页 |
| 2.1 Previous Researches on Children‘s Acquisition of Disjunction and niversal quantification | 第33-36页 |
| 2.2 Previous Researches on Children‘s Acquisition of Disjunction and Conditional Sentences | 第36-38页 |
| 2.3 Previous Researches on Children’s Acquisition of Disjunction and Negation | 第38-41页 |
| Chapter Three Experiments on Acquisition of the Disjunction Word huozhe inChild Mandarin | 第41-65页 |
| 3.1 Pilot Study | 第41-42页 |
| 3.2 Experiment 1 Children‘s Acquisition of the Disjunction Word huozhe in Two Arguments ofniversal Quantifier mei | 第42-50页 |
| 3.2.1 Subjects | 第42-43页 |
| 3.2.2 Procedures | 第43-44页 |
| 3.2.3 Materials | 第44-48页 |
| 3.2.4 Results and Discussion | 第48-50页 |
| 3.3 Experiment 2 Children‘s Acquisition of the Disjunction Word huozhe in Two Clauses ofRuguo-Conditional Statements | 第50-59页 |
| 3.3.1 Subjects | 第50页 |
| 3.3.2 Procedures | 第50-51页 |
| 3.3.3 Materials | 第51-55页 |
| 3.3.4 Results and Discussion | 第55-59页 |
| 3.4 Experiment 3 Children‘s Acquisition of the Disjunction Word huozhe in Negation | 第59-65页 |
| 3.4.1 Subjects | 第59页 |
| 3.4.2. Procedures | 第59-60页 |
| 3.4.3 Materials | 第60-63页 |
| 3.4.4 Results and Discussion | 第63-65页 |
| Chapter Four Children’s Knowledge of the Disjunction Word huozhe inMandarin Chinese | 第65-70页 |
| 4.1 Logical Interpretation or Pragmatic Interpretation? | 第65-67页 |
| 4.2 Explanations for Children‘s Insensitiveness to Scalar Implicatures | 第67-69页 |
| 4.3 Resolving the Learnability Problem | 第69-70页 |
| Conclusion | 第70-72页 |
| Notes | 第72-73页 |
| Works Cited | 第73-78页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第78-80页 |
| Appendix I Test Statements of the Pilot Study | 第80-81页 |
| Appendix II Test Materials of Experiment 1 | 第81-88页 |
| Appendix III Test Materials of Experiment 2 | 第88-96页 |
| Appendix IV Test Materials of Experiment 3 | 第96-99页 |
| Informative Chinese Abstract | 第99-108页 |
| Résumé and Publications since Entering the Program | 第108页 |
